Meetup
Community platform for discovering and running groups and events.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Meetup, Inc.
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- United States
- Company size
- 50–200
- Market role
- B2C Consumer App / Platform
- Official website
- meetup.com
What Meetup does
Meetup runs a two-sided community platform built around recurring group participation. On the demand side, members use the service to find local and virtual communities and attend events. On the supply side, organisers pay to create and manage groups, while larger organisations pay for scaled network management through Meetup Pro. The company creates value by aggregating local and interest-based communities, then monetising the management layer, premium member features, and enterprise tooling on top of that audience network.
Category differentiation
Meetup is a community and event participation platform, not a ticketing-first events marketplace or a general-purpose enterprise collaboration suite. It is distinct from social networks whose primary use case is content feed engagement rather than organiser-led recurring groups.
Strategic context
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Meetup, Inc. operates a consumer-facing platform and mobile app for discovering, joining, and organising interest-based groups and events, both in person and online. Its core product serves members who want to participate in communities and organisers who run recurring groups. The company also sells Meetup Pro, a premium product for enterprises, brands, and professional community builders managing multi-group networks at scale. Meetup generates revenue primarily from recurring organiser subscriptions required to run groups on the platform. It adds secondary recurring revenue from premium member subscriptions through Meetup+ and from enterprise-grade subscriptions via Meetup Pro. The platform creates value by combining audience discovery, community tools, event management, messaging, and recurring engagement into a single networked environment.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Following Bending Spoons’ successful Nasdaq IPO in July 2026, which valued the parent company at over $25 billion, Meetup continues to operate within a portfolio of over 50 digital brands managed via an AI-driven operational playbook. While parent activities have expanded to include major transactions such as the acquisitions of Tractive and Miro, Meetup remains integrated into Bending Spoons' centralised scaling strategy focused on subscription monetisation and efficiency.
Business model & monetisation
The company monetises through recurring subscriptions. Its primary revenue stream is organiser subscription fees charged to people who create and manage Meetup groups. Secondary revenue comes from enterprise subscriptions for Meetup Pro and premium consumer subscriptions for Meetup+. The product dataset also indicates supplementary monetisation from service fees on paid event tickets and advertising placements within emails and the platform interface.
- Organizer subscriptions
- Software Subscription
- Meetup Pro subscriptions
- Software Subscription
- Meetup+ subscriptions
- Content Subscription
- Paid event service fees
- Service Fee
- Advertising placements
- Ad-Supported
Products & capabilities
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Questions about Meetup
What is Meetup?
Meetup is a consumer platform for discovering, joining, and organising interest-based groups and events, with additional products for organisers and enterprise community teams.
Who uses Meetup?
Members use Meetup to find communities and events, organisers use it to run groups, and enterprises or brands use Meetup Pro to manage larger community programmes.
How does Meetup make money?
Meetup makes money mainly from recurring organiser subscriptions, plus enterprise subscriptions for Meetup Pro, premium member subscriptions for Meetup+, and supplementary service fees and advertising.
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